There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease, despite claims online that Japanese doctor Yoshinori Ohsumi won a Nobel Prize for discovering a treatment for the neurodegenerative disease -- a protocol said to have helped acclaimed actor and director Clint Eastwood. The false claim appears on websites using likely AI-generated content to create articles that appear to be from US broadcaster CBS's flagship news program "60 Minutes," but there is no evidence Eastwood's son or the biologist ever gave an interview to Anderson Cooper who retired from the newsmagazine show in May 2026.

"Scott Eastwood Breaks Down After Japan's Oldest Doctor Reveals His Father Completely Reversed Alzheimer's," the article's headline reads. The content is attributed to a "60 Minutes" segment anchored by broadcast journalist Anderson Cooper.

The article goes on to relay a purported interview between Ohsumi and Cooper about how he cured the retired actor.

Alzheimer's disease arises when proteins build up in the brain, causing cell death (archived here). Medication can slow cognitive decline, but there is currently no known cure for the disease, despite the article's claim it can be reversed using "four natural ingredients" (archived here).

In addition to falsely claiming to have information about an Alzheimer's cure, the article makes several other factual errors.

It incorrectly describes Ohsumi's discoveries that led to his 2016 Nobel Prize win.

The 81-year-old Japanese biologist discovered the...

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